# Manhunt: Unabomber
# Story core or character core?
Crime stories generally involve the question, who is the murderer? This question is very important to the whole story, because the starting point of a crime theme story is a case, and the end point is solving a case. It is normal to follow the logic of catching the murderer, but most excellent narratives do not adopt such a form. One type directly mentions the murderer at the beginning, and the other type has no murderer at all.
The reason is that the narrative structure of this form is story-centered, and excellent narrative structures are character-centered. For example, the starting point of the story of Unabomber is that the male protagonist has just become a profiler of the FBI from a police officer. interaction, be influenced by him, and finally overcome him and get rid of his influence.
The screenwriter even used the interspersed timeline to break the audience's assumptions. For example, the scene of Unabomber in prison was interspersed from the previous episodes, which invisibly told the audience that the end of the story is not to catch the murderer, and there are more stories to come. Using this method, the audience's expectations are adjusted. If the audience's expected result is to catch Unabomber and the episode ends, then the later content can easily become boring or lose its appeal, even if the later story is equally exciting.
# true detective theme
I feel that many excellent drama series are true detective themes, and it is really easy to tell an attractive story with this theme.
## Villain Charm
In a character-centric story, the most attractive of all the characters is of course the villain. In true detective stories, with the help of cases, it is easy to build attractive villains, including Unabomber, the criminal in mindhunter, the villain in the wire, and the king in yellow in true detective. In modern society, there are few villains more charismatic than a serial killer.
## Protagonist shaping
The theme of True Detective is of course not superheroes. If the story of Unabomber is about superheroes, then the protagonist can easily decipher the text clues and find the criminals by himself, but this is not the case in reality, the protagonist has his colleagues, and him His superiors, as well as his wife, have to get a search warrant, etc. It can be said that the protagonist not only wants to solve the case, he is also fighting against the whole society. Few subjects can express the conflict between the protagonist and the society so conveniently and easily for the audience.
## Assimilated by the villain
Now that there is a charismatic villain, the protagonist's choice when facing the villain can be interpreted in a variety of ways. The most common example is that the protagonist is assimilated by the villain, or the protagonist begins to turn violent, or the protagonist insists on his ideals and defeats the villain.
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